Christology Ch.1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Asceticism | the practice of spiritual exercises and mortifications such as prayer, fasting and abstinence and self denial for the purpose of acquiring and growing in virtue. |
| Canon | meaning rule or standard (Greek or Latin) A statute promulgated to assist in practicing the faith or governing the church fairly and consistently. |
| Catholic | Universal. This quality of the church can also describe a member of the church in union with the pope. |
| Church | the name given the assembly of God's people called together and united through baptism in a common profession of faith. |
| Communio | Latin for "mutual participation"or "oneness together". its origin is in the shared divine life of the blessed trinity and it is used to describe the bond of communion with Jesus and all baptized, faithful Christians in the church. |
| Creed | a declaration of the essential beliefs of the church. |
| Deposit of Faith | The heritage of faith contained in Scared Scripture and tradition, which has been handed on in the church from the time of the apostles and from which the Magisterium draws all that it proposes for belief as being divinely revealed. |
| Deuterocanonical | Those books that were included in the Septuagint version of the old testament used by the early Christians. |
| Divine Revelation | God's communication of himself by which he makes know his divine plan. |
| faith | the theological virtue by which one believes all that God has said and revealed to man and that the church proposes for belief. |
| First Cause | St. Thomas Aquinas's proofs. Based on observation that everything in creation has been caused or created by something else. |
| First Mover | Aquinas's proofs. Observable truth that everything that moves is set in motion by something else. |
| Inerrant | making no mistakes or errors. |
| infallible | Immune from error. |
| Inspired | guided by god; from the word meaning breathed in". |
| Lectio Divina | Reading and meditation on scripture. |
| Liturgy | From the greek meaning "public service" liturgy is the worship rendered the Father by the Mystical Body of Christ. |
| Liturgy of the Hours | Called the divine office. Official daily prayer of the church. Comprised of seven "hours", or periods of prayer. |
| Liturgy of the Mass | Called the Eucharist or Lord's supper. Principal sacramental celebration of the church and was instituted by Jesus at the Last Supper. |
| Magisterium | The name given to the universal teaching of the Church. |
| Pope | Successor of St. Peter, Bishop of Rome, supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church. |
| Protoevangelium | Greek meaning "First" and "good news". The first message of Good news, the first gospel, found in Genesis. |
| reason | The intellectual power or faculty that is ordinarily employed by man in adapting thought or action to some end; the guiding principle of the human mind. |
| Sacrament | an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the church, by which divine life is dispensed through the work of the Holy Spirit. |
| Sacred Scripture | The books of the Bible, which contain the truth of God's Revelation |
| Sacred Tradition | The word of God entrusted to the apostles and their successors by christ and the Holy Spirit transmitted by preaching and teaching to each generation of christians. |
| Salvation History | The story of God's plan to save humanity from the consequences of sin |
| Septuagint | The third century BC Greek translation of the Scriptures made by 72 jewish scholars. |
| Transcendent | Existing beyond or apart from the limitations of human experience or the material universe. |
| Vulgate | from the Latin for "common" the name of St. Jerome's Translation of the bible into a common latin. |
| Word | used to denote either scripture or Jesus himself. |
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